Piracy

M/V reports approach by suspicious vessel in 16-20N 068-04E at 181300Z nov

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 3451/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-11-22 11:05Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · MRCC MUMBAI 190640Z NOV 14.. Issued 2014-11-19 08:36Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 16.333, 68.067. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued: 2014-11-19 08:36Z
status: Archived notice
authority: MRCC MUMBAI 190640Z NOV 14.
issued by: MRCC MUMBAI
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 16.333, 68.067
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
PIRACY.
DNC 03.
M/V REPORTS APPROACH BY SUSPICIOUS VESSEL IN
16-20N 068-04E AT 181300Z NOV. VESSELS ARE
ADVISED TO KEEP CLEAR OF THIS POSITION AND TO EXERCISE
EXTREME CAUTION. REPORTS TO MRCC MUMBAI,
INMARSAT-C: 441907210, PHONE: 9122 2438 8065,
E-MAIL: INDSAR@VSNL.NET.

Reading this warning

Piracy and armed robbery: Attacks and attempted boardings of ships, and suspicious approaches by small craft.
DNC (Digital Nautical Chart): A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Date-time group (DTG): A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre): A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
Inmarsat-C / SafetyNET: The satellite system that carries NAVAREA warnings to ships at sea, and the terminal number rescue centres give for reports.

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Collected reports in this area · piracy & armed robbery reports

16 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

M/V approached by pirates in 16-00.6N 065-55.7E at 171730Z nov2013-11-18
M/V attacked in 16-54N 065-59E at 140652Z apr2012-04-15
M/V attacked in 14-50N 068-48E at 050336Z may2011-05-05
M/V attacked in 16-29N 065-57E at 031431Z feb2011-02-03
M/V attacked in 16-39N 067-36E at 140720Z jan2011-01-14
M/V attacked in 14-03N 067-29E at 111342Z jan2011-01-11

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

0 piracy & armed robbery reports listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 08:34Z; source collection times vary.

Piracy

Vessels attacked or boarded, suspicious approaches, pirate action groups — Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea, Malacca and Singapore Straits, South China Sea. All current piracy & armed robbery reports →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.